December 30, 2010

Go Stanford!

Yi Cui, Craig S. Riddle, Xing Xie, and Stanford coworkers prepared a highly porous, conductive, biocompatible microbial fuel cell (MFC) anode material by intimately blending carbon nanotubes with a porous textile made of randomly intertwined 20-μm-diameter polyester fibers (ACS Article.) The new MFCs generated a maximum current density that is 157% higher and a maximum power density that is 68% higher than traditional MFCs. So it appears that these fuel cells are getting a little closer to the realm of practicality.